Russia's Northern Fleet Practices Arctic Missile Battle in Zapad-2025 Drills
20250913
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Northern Fleet has practiced a missile battle against a landing force of a simulated enemy on the Northern Sea Route, as part of the Russian-Belarusian joint strategic exercise Zapad-2025, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
"As part of the joint strategic exercise Zapad-2025, the ships of the Arctic expeditionary group of the Northern Fleet have completed a number of tasks to counter the landing force of a simulated enemy with missile and artillery firing in the waters of the Northern Sea Route," the report said.
After receiving the task of defeating the enemy's naval group, a Ka-27 naval helicopter was lifted from the Severomorsk large anti-submarine ship to carry out aerial reconnaissance, clarify the location of the enemy's landing troops and issue a target designation to the ship, the ministry added.
© Sputnik
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